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Originally Posted by Hornblower
All I see here are graphical ephemerides of the planets. The burden is on you to convince us, by means of compelling statistical analysis, that there is even a slight chance that your ideas of relations between this information and events on Earth are worth the trouble of scientific scrutiny.
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Okay, consider the 1999-2008 time chart of the planets. This is a starting point for a temporal cosmology, as it shows the immediate universe as a dynamic process. I am saying this is how the universe, lensed by our immediate context, appears to us on our planet. Remember, if you were big enough to stand on the solar system like on a small coin, the nearest bright star, Alpha Centauri, would be 100 metres away. So it is reasonable to consider the solar system as a lens for the cosmos. Now, this time series is too short to demonstrate a scientific correlation, but I would like to draw attention to one feature of it which illustrates a changing pattern. At the start of the millennium, the chart illustrates three conjunctions of outer planets - Saturn-Jupiter, Uranus-Neptune and Mars-Pluto. Each of these pairs is together at the start of 2001. They gradually separated in that year, with the final Mars-Pluto separation happening in August 2001. Historically, it is possible to examine the periods when similar events occurred, and look for correlations. This science is in its infancy, as the material is chaotic and each re-occurrence is different. My purpose here is to show that this material can be studied with rigorous empirical methods.